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2011 24 Heures De Floride
Here it is folks, the 2011 edition of the 24 Heures de Floride will be our third annual event celebrating the springtime get together of The Deep South Cobra club. Good friends, good food, good roads, good places to visit, and hopefully good weather. We will use Tallahassee, Florida as our central hub like we did last year. Unpack your bags and stay in the same hotel for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. This year’s event will start Thursday night April 7 for a very informal, if-you-can-make-it, dinner at the Red Lobster located at 2583 North Monroe Street, which is just 1.13 miles south of the hotel. From 7 PM to 9 PM they will try to seat us in the same area, just mention the Cobra Club when you enter the restaurant. Check in at the hotel and then come on down if you’d like. No hurry, no definite schedule. You can pick up t-shirts and registration packets beginning at 6 PM in the Holiday Inn lobby. We will have chase trucks following us Friday and Saturday carrying a small assortment of tools, jumper cables, first aid kit, tow strap, coolers full of soft drinks and water, and just for Larry and Bruce, a trailer.
Friday morning we will have a personally guided tour of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, then a tour of the Maule Aircraft Plant in Moultrie, Georgia. Then we have a short and simple time-speed-distance (TSD) Rallye over to Quitman, Georgia where we’ll have lunch at Wiregrass Restaurant and Bar. After lunch we cruise down to Monticello, Florida over some wonderfully scenic roads and then back to the hotel for rest and to clean up for dinner. Dinner will be catered at Classic Motor Storage where there are some very interesting cars and people. This is also where cars broken on Friday will be taken and hopefully repaired.
Saturday brings more scenic cruising over beautiful canopy roads around Tallahassee, a Gimmick Rallye where you’ll have to follow directions, and answer questions. You’ll need to bring a clip board and something to write with. A rubber band at the bottom of the clipboard will keep your instructions from blowing around. We visit an outdoor car show put on by a large local car club at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum. If you missed the museum last year, you’ll have plenty of time to go inside and see one of the most eclectic collections anywhere in captivity. Lunch is just down the road at Famous Dave’s Barbeque, then more canopy roads, a private car collection, a special southern culinary delight, some more cruising, and back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. And thrown in for good measure, you will pick up 5 cards throughout the day to compete in a poker run. Awards and a buffet dinner will be at Julie’s Place, 2901 North Monroe Street, just south of the hotel.
Awards
There will be several awards handed out this year. These awards have been dreamed up by Ricky Harper and Randy Dender and they have invested hundreds of skillful hours handcrafting these beautiful keepsake treasures. These awards will include the “Iron Butt Award” for the Cobra driven, not trailered, the farthest to attend this year’s event, First and second place for the TSD Rallye, First and Second place for the Gimmick Rallye, a “Hard Luck Award”, “Most Directionally Challenged”, and “Poker Run Best Hand”.
Hotels
We have two hotels this year and they are right next door to each other. We have the Holiday Inn & Suites, 2725 Graves Road, Tallahassee, FL 32303. This is the hotel we used last year. They serve breakfast and they have a lounge. Call them direct at (850) 536-2000 and mention the Deep South Cobra Club to reserve your $99 per night rate. Or call the Comfort Inn direct at (850) 562-7200 and mention the Deep South Cobra Club to reserve your $75 per night rate. We have 15 rooms at each hotel, first come first served. Reservation deadline is March 17. There is plenty of parking in the shared lots for trailers.
Entry
Go to the Deep South Cobra Club website,
www.dscc.us to register. Entry will include one T-shirt, static cling decals for both doors, Friday night’s catered dinner for one person, the culinary delight, and Saturday night’s catered buffet for one person. You’ll need to order additional dinners and t-shirts as you need them.